Post by Sonia M. Zaragoza on Jul 26, 2016 5:05:42 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chands experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because the mind could be very convincing simulator. Such was the case at the battle in Iraq, which made him question religious practices that involved worshipping in the video Inner Visions and Running Trains. This is because even though he realized that he had saved everyone’s lives, he did not know how everything happened. Chand did not pretended to be all mighty and did not wanted to be compared to the Guru because he knew that his ideas, fear, etc. could have played a role in making him believe he actually saw his deity.
In the book “The Unknowing Sage”, there is a real life experience shared by Chand were a lady states that, “when she was drowning [Chand] appeared there, caught her hand, and brought her out of the river and said, ‘You have yet to do a lot of work’… she had written to me so as to know what work she is to do. Now neither did I go there to saver her, nor did I tell her that she has yet to do a lot of work. This is the secret”(p.3). This is why in the end of the video Inner Visions and Running Trains, Chands again mentions that “it is the true knowledge of the feelings, visions and images that are seen…Impressions which are unreal…are produced by the mind…the truth is that I know nothing”, meaning that the mind will do or makes us believe whatever we want it to make us see, as long as its in the “name” of survival.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”, means that if evolution and the constant motion of things is not considered as a principle of life. then it remains being just an opinion that can not be backed up. Such idea will remain being only an idea, unless it can be proven through observations and experiments, as well as be willing to be modified. Science as a principle allows rooms for improvement, evolution, trial and error. This is why if done right, it can be challenged and bettered, but if done wrong it will remain being just an idea that cannot stand alone, such as the uncertainty principles that guarantees “uncertainty” in video The Limits of Science. Science is not meant to be 100% correct, but it very much provides us with an accurate idea that can help us predict outcomes. It simply goes beyond a couple of word wondering based on (observations) in the air to facts and actions of some sort.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”, means that if evolution and the constant motion of things is not considered as a principle of life. then it remains being just an opinion that can not be backed up. Such idea will remain being only an idea, unless it can be proven through observations and experiments, as well as be willing to be modified. Science as a principle allows rooms for improvement, evolution, trial and error. This is why if done right, it can be challenged and bettered, but if done wrong it will remain being just an idea that cannot stand alone, such as the uncertainty principles that guarantees “uncertainty” in video The Limits of Science. Science is not meant to be 100% correct, but it very much provides us with an accurate idea that can help us predict outcomes. It simply goes beyond a couple of word wondering based on (observations) in the air to facts and actions of some sort.
In the book “The Unknowing Sage”, there is a real life experience shared by Chand were a lady states that, “when she was drowning [Chand] appeared there, caught her hand, and brought her out of the river and said, ‘You have yet to do a lot of work’… she had written to me so as to know what work she is to do. Now neither did I go there to saver her, nor did I tell her that she has yet to do a lot of work. This is the secret”(p.3). This is why in the end of the video Inner Visions and Running Trains, Chands again mentions that “it is the true knowledge of the feelings, visions and images that are seen…Impressions which are unreal…are produced by the mind…the truth is that I know nothing”, meaning that the mind will do or makes us believe whatever we want it to make us see, as long as its in the “name” of survival.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”, means that if evolution and the constant motion of things is not considered as a principle of life. then it remains being just an opinion that can not be backed up. Such idea will remain being only an idea, unless it can be proven through observations and experiments, as well as be willing to be modified. Science as a principle allows rooms for improvement, evolution, trial and error. This is why if done right, it can be challenged and bettered, but if done wrong it will remain being just an idea that cannot stand alone, such as the uncertainty principles that guarantees “uncertainty” in video The Limits of Science. Science is not meant to be 100% correct, but it very much provides us with an accurate idea that can help us predict outcomes. It simply goes beyond a couple of word wondering based on (observations) in the air to facts and actions of some sort.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy”, means that if evolution and the constant motion of things is not considered as a principle of life. then it remains being just an opinion that can not be backed up. Such idea will remain being only an idea, unless it can be proven through observations and experiments, as well as be willing to be modified. Science as a principle allows rooms for improvement, evolution, trial and error. This is why if done right, it can be challenged and bettered, but if done wrong it will remain being just an idea that cannot stand alone, such as the uncertainty principles that guarantees “uncertainty” in video The Limits of Science. Science is not meant to be 100% correct, but it very much provides us with an accurate idea that can help us predict outcomes. It simply goes beyond a couple of word wondering based on (observations) in the air to facts and actions of some sort.